On the morning Tuesday 3 July the Columban Centennial Youth Mission Exposure was declared open in Seoul, South Korea by Fr Joseph Kang. This was soon followed by our first Mass in Spanish, with English readings and intercessory prayers in Chinese! This has soon...
Like many other people I like chocolate, writes Fr Sean McDonagh SSC. I find it sweet, and the aroma lingers on after you have eaten the them. Something so delightful as chocolate must surely have a respectable and positive history. Unfortunately, it has not. As we...
‘The Turning Wheel’ by Frank Hoare narrates the work of the Columban missionaries in Fiji over 65 years. It also traces in summary form the changes that have happened in Fiji and in the Catholic Church there during that time. It traces the maturing of a Church that...
As the oceans teem with plastic, Fr Séan McDonagh calls for a ban on single use plastic and for a change in the way plastics are produced and used. We need to recognise the extraordinary damage plastic poses to our oceans. Dame Ellen MacArthur is a record-breaking...
Jessica was a lost child wandering the streets of a Philippine city, picked up by a human trafficker and brought to different places where she was sold as a commodity to foreign sex tourists to be abused. She didn’t know what was happening to her at 14-years of...
"Allahu akbar, God is greater," begins the call to prayer from the loud speakers of the thousands of mosques throughout Pakistan. We absolutely say AMEN to the GREATNESS of GOD. Pakistan has a population of two hundred million people of whom about 96% are Muslim,...
Fr Liam O’Callaghan sends an update on his work in the ‘land of the pure’ which is the meaning of the word Pakistan - the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change in the world. I am based in Hyderabad city, with a population of 1.73 million, the second...
More and more people are being murdered for protecting their communities from miners, loggers and dam builders warns Fr Sean McDonagh, SSC as he pays tribute to Fr Marcelito Paez killed on 4 December 2017. 2016 was a perilous year for people who were defending...
An article by Milwida M. Guevara published in the Philippines Daily Bulletin on 12 December 2017. I tried to focus on the celebration of the mass yesterday but my memory kept drifting to the past. My friend, Fr Michael Mohally, a Columban priest, celebrated his...
It was a privilege for Fr Tomás King to share a last goodbye with a one-week-old baby girl and resulted in an encounter with the Mystery of Love. When I was sixteen years old, my father was diagnosed with cancer and died ten weeks later. Soon afterwards, I dropped...